​DREAM Weekly Email, Disability and Higher Education in the News: April 9-15, 2017From DREAM: Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and MentoringSponsored by the National Center for College Students with Disabilities and the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD)

-------------------------------Weekly Email Update on Issues Related to Disability and Higher Education Weeks of April 9-15, 2017-------------------------------

* Updated guidelines came out about how to write and report about people with disabilities and is expected to influence higher education faculty and students, since the last version’s recommendations were adopted by groups like the Associated Press Stylebook, the APA, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science: http://rtcil.org/products/media/guidelines

* Gerardo Salinas Enriquez has a radio program about disability called “Con Vision” (“With Vision”), now available through Facebook live-streaming (show is in Spanish only, without captions or audio description) – you can see an episode at https://www.facebook.com/gerardo.salinas.92775

* “Bottleneck courses” are huge lectures with hundreds of students and low passing rates that “bottleneck” students’ progress; San Diego State hired the best students in Psychology 101 to provide Supplemental Instruction about studying, using active learning techniques, and it’s working – only 4% of students using the service have to re-take the course, compared with 18% of those who didn’t participate: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/apr/12/sdsu-program-helps-freshmen-learn-college-student-/

* #LiveOn is a new anti-suicide movement from the Disability Rights Center – you can see videos and learn more at http://liveon.net/

* After three months, Secretary DeVos has hired nine senior staff members. Some are controversial appointments (hiring Candice Jackson at the Office of Civil Rights after she said women accusing Trump of sexual assault were “fake victims”); others are surprising (Jason Botel is a progressive Democrat and Black Lives Matter supporter); and some are reassuring (James Manning brings extensive experience with higher ed): https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/13/department-education-makes-first-official-senior-hires (FYI; James Manning also co-authored a 2006 Dear Colleague letter encouraging campuses to better serve students with disabilities by creating contracts with Vocational Rehabilitation, even though that was not required by law - https://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN0619.html)

By the way, please don't presume DREAM, the National Center for College Students with Disabilities, or AHEAD agree with everything in these links we send out - we're just passing along the information so you can form your own opinions. Thanks.

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